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Philologist specialist of Byzantium and the Slavs in the middle ages, and the Huns in antiquity; material culture (crossbow).
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Mayer, Hans Eberhard. «Latins, Muslims and Greeks in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.» History: The Journal of the Historical Association. 63 (1978) 175-192. D 1 H815, per.bib. «the Fatimid caliphs had created in Jerusalem an enormous Christian immunity [...] the whole north-western quarter of the city [...] expulsion of the Greeks» (187ff).

Poole, Reginald Lane. «Seals and Documents.» Proceedings of the British Academy. 9 (1919/20) 319-339. «no single papal document written on [papyrus] is preserved in the original until late in the eighth century and only twenty-seven in the three following centuries» (319). Lots on Pope Zachary, also EMA.bib.

Poole, Reginald Lane. «The Beginning of the Year in the Middle Ages.» Proceedings of the British Academy. 10 (1921/22) 113-137. AS 122 L5. «The reckoning of the year from 1 March is found, I believe, with a single exception, in only one place in the West, namely in Venice, where it held its ground until the fall of the republic in 1797» (118). «It is found in original diplomas in the Venetian archives from the middle of the eleventh century.» (118n5). Also EMA.bib.

Prawer, Joshua. «The Settlement of Latins in Jerusalem.» Speculum 27 (1952) 490-503. «a great many Crusaders' cities started life on a tabula rasa after the destruction of the former population.» (490). The Christians of Jerusalem were driven out by the Muslims during the three years of Crusader advance; when the Crusaders captured the city, they slaughtered the Jewish and Muslim population, and started a new community, at first of their own people, adding later some Syrian Christians (92).

Queller, Donald E. «On the completion of A History of the Crusades.» The International History Review. 13 (1991) 314-330. D 1 I5. Review article.

Queller, Donald E., and Irene B. Katele. «Attitudes towards the Venetians in the Fourth Crusade: The Western sources.» The International History Review. 4 (1982) 1-36. D 1 I5, per.bib. Check this out: «Similarly, Innocent would not order the Crusaders to restore CPL to Alexius, as Alberic of Trois-Fontaines asserts.» (35).

Queller, Donald E., and Thomas F. Madden. The Fourth Crusade: The Conquest of Constantinople. With an essay on primary sources and bibliography by Alfred J. Andrea, 299-343. 2nd revised ed. Philadelphia: U of Penn Press, 1997. Roba, PIMS D164 Q38. The conquest of Zara as a scheme to finance the Crusade: «The interest of Christendom in the holy war and the self-interest of Venice in reconquering Christian Zara coincided.» (56).

Queller, Donald E., and Susan J. Stratton. «A century of controversy on the Fourth Crusade.» Studies in medieval and Renaissance history. OS 6 (1969) 233-277. D 119 S8. Query: How can we believe in a diversion from Cairo to CPL after Zara, when Prince Alexius was on board?

Richard, Jean. «An Account of the Battle of Hattin referring to the Frankish mercenaries in Oriental Muslim States.» Speculum 27 (1952) 168-177. Some of these Crusaders were mercenaries who placed their sword not at the service of God, but at that of the highest bidder -- even if he was a Muslim.

Riley-Smith, Jonathan. «The Motives of the earliest Crusaders and the settlement of Latin Palestine, 1095-1100.» EHR 98 (1983) 721-736. «every historian of the First Crusade has sooner or later to face up to the question of what moved men to take the cross» (721).

Slack, Corliss Konwiser. «Royal familiares in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1100-1187.» Viator. 22 (1991) 15-67. CB 351 V53. With prosopographic appendices. Familiares: members of the curia regis whose opinions «carried more weight than those of the knights who held the smaller fiefs.» (15).

Sweeney, James Ross. «Basil of Trnovo's Journey to Durazzo: A Note on Balkan Travel at the Beginning of the 13th Century.» Slavonic and East European Review. 51 (1973) 118-123. HX Itinerary: Phil note in Innocent file.

Taft, Robert F. «Holy Things for the Saints: The Ancient call to communion and its response.» In Fountain of Life. Washington, DC: Pastoral Press, 1991. 87-102.

Taft, Robert F., rev. «The beginning, the end, and what happens in between: The origins and meaning of the Liturgical year. A propos of a recent book.» Orientalia Christiana Periodica. 57 (1991) 409-415.

Taft, Robert F. «The interpolation of the Sanctus into the Anaphora: When and Where? A review of the dossier.» Orientalia Christiana Periodica. 57 (1991) 281-308.

Taft, Robert F., ed. The Christian East: Its Institutions and its Thought. A Critical Reflection. Rome: Pontificio Ist Orientale, 1996.

Taft, Robert F. «Holy Week in the Byzantine Tradition.» In Hebdomadae sanctae celebratio: Conspectus historicus comparativus. The Celebration of Holy Week in Ancient Jerusalem and its Development in the Rites of East and West. Ed: Antony George Kollamparampil. Rome: Edizioni Liturgiche, 1997. 67-91. Roba BV 55 H42. Re Jerusalem, but not much help. «This creativity remained characteristic of the Byzantine rite until the Late Byzantine Period, when Turkish incursions into Asia Minor in the 1170s ultimately forced the Byzantines to give priority to the struggle for survival of empire and church.» (89). No mention of the Crusaders who took away the Holy Wisdom and the Anastasis from the Greek rite clergy...

Wiles, Peter. «War and Economic Systems.» In Science et conscience de la société: Mélanges en l'honneur de Raymond Aron. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1971. 2:271-296. D 16.8 S364, HX. Check # vols, and end page. «The Crusaders on the other hand, and the Moslem conquerors before them, had genuinely ideological motives. They fought to impose a religion. Both plunder and the love of war were clearly sidelines. The economic situation, though probably not the system, of Arabia may well have played a role in launching the Moslems. But even this is not true of the Crusaders: their aggressions were surely the most purely idealistic of all history.» (272).

William of Apulia. MGH SS, 9. Parapinakes, 265, 268.

William of Tyre. Willermi Tyrensis Archiepiscopi Historiae. In Vol I,1 of RHC: Historiens occidentaux. See the opening chapters for mendacious details about persecution of Christianity in Jerusalem under the Fatimids.

Wroth, Warwick. Catalogue of the Coins of the Vandals, Ostrogoths, and Lombards, and of the Empires of Thessalonica, Nicaea, and Trebizond in the British Museum. London: The Trustees, 1911; reprint Chicago: Argonaut, 1966. PIMS CJ 1215 B732; ROMU CJ 1215 L7.